ISBN:
9789004188921
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 408 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
International comparative social studies v. 23
Parallel Title:
Print version World Religions and Multiculturalism : A Dialectic Relation
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Multiculturalism Religious aspects
;
Religious pluralism
Abstract:
This book is about new forms of religious activities emerging in the context of their dialectic relations with contemporary multicultural realities. World religions are effectively a major agent of the multiculturalization of contemporary societies. However, multiculturalism pushes them not only toward change but also toward new conflicts
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Tables and Figure; Introduction A Dialectic Relation; Part One New Perspectives; Chapter One The New Religious Constellations in the Frameworks of Contemporary Globalization and Civilizational Transformation; Chapter Two Religious America, Secular Europe: Framing the Debate; Chapter Three Globalization, Nationalism and Religion: A Multiple Modernities Perspective on Imperial and Peripheral Nations in Post-Communist Europe; Part Two Christian Faiths; Chapter Four Dynamics of Ultramodern Religiosity and New Forms of Religious Spatiality
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Five Pentecostalism: A Christian Revival Sweeping the Developing WorldChapter Six Trans-National Pentecostalism and Secular Modernity; Part Three Islam; Chapter Seven Transnational Islam in a Post-Westphalian World: Connectedness vs. Sovereignty; Chapter Eight Authoritarian Persistence and Barriers to Democracy in the Muslim Middle East: Beyond Cultural Essentialism; Chapter Nine From Medina to the Ummah: Muslim Globalization in Historical and Contemporary Perspective; Part Four Asian Religions
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Ten Establishment of Buddhist Sacred Space in Contemporary India: The Ambedkarite Buddhism, Dalit Civil Religion and the Struggle against Social ExclusionChapter Eleven Hindu Traditions in Diaspora: Shifting Spaces and Places; Chapter Twelve Religions in India and China Today; Part Five Judaism; Chapter Thirteen One People? Contemporary Jewish Identities; Chapter Fourteen Judaism and Global Religious Trends: Some Contemporary Developments; Part Six The Comparative Dimension; Chapter Fifteen Religion, Territory and Multiculturalism; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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